Sun Bathing

This afternoon I saw the sun enter the water

Like a swimmer in need of cool, cool water

In the blazing heat of the day,

Looking for respite from being the sun

Looking for respite from having seen too much

In its life of the murderous day.

 

Tomorrow the sun will return to these same waters

To refresh itself and bathe all the grime of clawing fire away,

To refresh itself and bathe all the grime of  rankling earth away

To refresh itself and bathe in the transparency of pulsing air

To refresh itself and bathe in the invisibility of lonely night

To refresh itself and splash in its eventual extinction